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“Not only were
many of the founders of the United States
Government Masons, but they received aid from a
secret and august body existing in Europe, which
helped them to establish this country for a
peculiar and particular purpose known only to
the initiated few. The Great Seal is the
signature of this exalted body—unseen and for
the most part unknown—and the unfinished
pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard
setting forth symbolically the task to the
accomplishment of which the United States
Government was dedicated from the day of its
inception.”—Manly P. Hall, 33rd Degree
Freemason
Of all the
“Masonic symbols” associated with the founding
of America, Manly Hall viewed the design of the
Great Seal of the United States as the highest
signature of occult planning by Freemasons. This
was not only due to the repetition of the number
13, the pentagram shapes, the uncapped pyramid or
the Phoenix-Eagle, but Hall, like other experts in
mystical literature and Western esoteric tradition
understood the “mass of occult and Masonic
symbols” on the Great Seal represented both the
tangible ambitions of a new society and a
metaphysical concept attributed to Hermes
Trismegistus, which means that visible matter is
mirrored by unseen reality, or, “as above, so
below.”
Hall believed what this meant practically was that
only students of archaic or esoteric symbolism
would be able to decipher the true meaning hidden
within the subterfuge of the seal’s design and
that the symbolism was thus intended to convey two
sets of meaning—the first for non-illuminates
having to do with certain natural or historical
issues perceived to be important to society; and
the second deeper occult truisms meant for
comprehension by members of the exalted Order.
While
examining the mountains of literature publicly
available on the Great Seal including its history
from the original resolution in 1776 to its final
approval in 1782, it is important to note that
general harmony exists among researchers
concerning the superficial interpretation of the
primary symbols.
For instance the obverse side of the Great Seal
portrays a Bald Eagle clutching a bundle of arrows
in its left talon, while in its right claw it
grips an olive branch. The eagle is looking to the
right, indicating that, while the United States
prefers peace, it is always ready to go to war if
necessary. The original 13 colonies are said to be
represented in the 13 leaves of the olive branch,
13 olives on the branch, 13 bars and stripes in
the shield, 13 letters in the phrase ‘E Pluribus
Unum’ and the 13 stars above the eagles head
(which, as researchers point out, forms a
hexagram). On the reverse of the seal the number
13 continues in the stone layers of the pyramid
and the 13 letters of ‘Annuit Coeptis.’
Yet
according to esotericists like Hall, the
extraordinary truth about the number 13 so affixed
to the Great Seal was actually more than
representation of the original colonies. It was a
marker for those who understood it as a Masonic
‘power number,’ sacred to the Moon among other
things and representative of the head of Isis,
while the Eagle, Hall wrote, was a shrewd
masquerade for the mythical Phoenix so important
to Masonic mysticism. Hall partly came to this
conclusion based on the early seal prototype of
William Barton showing a Phoenix in its nest of
flames.
“Most of the designs originally submitted had
the Phoenix bird on its nest of flames as the
central motif,” Hall said. “Its selection
would of course have been appropriate….
[because] the Phoenix is one sign of the secret
orders of the ancient world and of the initiate of
those orders, for it was common to refer to one
who had been accepted into the temples as a man
twice-born, or re-born. Wisdom confers a new life,
and those who become wise are born again.”
Hall went on in The Secret Destiny of America:
The Phoenix symbol
is important in another way, as an emblem among
nearly all civilized nations of royalty, power,
superiority, and immortality. The Phoenix of
China is identical in meaning with the Phoenix
of Egypt; and the Phoenix of the Greeks is the
same as the Thunder Bird of the American
Indians…
It is immediately evident that the bird on the
original seal is not an eagle… but the
Phoenix…. The beak is of a different shape,
the neck is much longer, and the small tuft of
hair at the back of the head leaves no doubt as
to the artist’s intention. [1]
Hall then
acknowledged that if the design “on the obverse
side of the seal is stamped with the signature”
of the Masons, the design on the reverse was even
more related to the Order’s “mysteries,”casting
the United States within the society’s secret
scheme to fulfill the Baconian dream of a New
Atlantis by establishing America as the capital of
the New World Order.
Hall continues:
Here is
represented the great pyramid of Gizah, composed
of 13 rows of masonry, showing 72 stones. The
pyramid is without a cap stone, and above its
upper platform floats a triangle containing the
All-Seeing Eye surrounded by rays of light…
The Pyramid of Gizah was believed by the ancient
Egyptians to be the shrine tomb of the god
Hermes, or Thot, the personification of
Universal Wisdom.
No trace has ever been found of the cap of the
great pyramid. A flat platform about thirty feet
square gives no indication that this part of the
structure was ever otherwise finished; and this
is appropriate, as the Pyramid represents human
society itself, imperfect and incomplete. The
structure’s ascending converging angles and
faces represent the common aspiration of
humankind; above floats the symbol of the
esoteric orders, the radiant triangle with its
all-seeing eye…
There is a legend that in the lost Atlantis
stood a great university in which originated
most of the arts and sciences of the present
race. The University was in the form of an
immense pyramid with many galleries and
corridors, and on the top was an observatory for
the study of the stars. This temple to the
sciences in the old Atlantis is shadowed forth
in the seal of the new Atlantis. Was it the
society of the unknown philosophers who scaled
the new nation with the eternal emblems, that
all the nations might know the purpose for which
the new country had been founded?
…The combination of the Phoenix, the pyramid,
and the all-seeing eye is more than chance or
coincidence. There is nothing about the early
struggles of the colonists to suggest such a
selection to farmers, shopkeepers, and country
gentlemen. There is only one possible origin for
these symbols, and that is the secret societies
which came to this country 150 years before the
Revolutionary War. Most of the patriots who
achieved American independence belonged to these
societies, and derived their inspiration,
courage, and high purpose from the ancient
teaching. There can be no question that the
great seal was directly inspired by these orders
of the human Quest, and that it set forth the
purpose for this nation as that purpose was seen
and known to the Founding Fathers.
The monogram of the new Atlantis reveals this
continent as set apart for the accomplishment of
the great work—here is to arise the pyramid of
human aspiration, the school of the secret
sciences. [2]
Besides Manly Hall,
late scholars that recognized the occult symbolism
of the Great Seal as pointing to this ‘secret
destiny of America’ included Rhodes Scholar
James H. Billington and Harvard Professor Charles
Eliot Norton, who described the Great Seal as
hardly other than an “emblem of a Masonic
Fraternity.” In 1846, 33rd Degree Freemason and
noted author James D. Carter inadvertently
confirmed this as well when he admitted the
Masonic symbolism is clearly known whenever “an
informed Mason examines the Great Seal.”
But for all the volumes that were written in the
early years about the arcane meaning behind the
obvious symbols on the Great Seal of the United
States, it was not until the 1930s that, perhaps
by providence, the significance of the Great Seal
started finding its defining moment.
It happened when occult minded 32nd Degree Mason,
Henry Wallace, the Secretary of Agriculture for
the United States in 1934 became intrigued with
the meaning behind the Great Seal. Wallace had
been a disciple of Agni Yoga Society founder and
theosophist, Nicholas Roerich, whose devotion to
mysticism was increasingly focused on apocalyptic
themes surrounding the coming of a new earthly
order. This came to light publicly when Wallace
ran as Vice President in the 1940 presidential
election and was threatened with embarrassment by
the Republicans, who had come into possession of a
series of letters written by Wallace in the 1930s.
The letters were addressed to Roerich as “Dear
Guru” and described the anticipation Wallace
felt for “the breaking of the New Day,” a time
when a mythical kingdom would arrive on earth
accompanied by a special breed of people. The
Democrats barely kept the letters from the public
by making threats of their own, and Wallace went
on to become 33rd Vice President of the United
States under the 32nd President, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, himself a 32nd Degree Mason with an
equal thirst for mysticism.
Stay tuned…
1. Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Destiny of
America, chapter 18, Philosophical Research
Society, 3341 Griffith Park Boulevard, Los Angeles
27, California, 1944
While
examining the mountains of literature publicly
available on the Great Seal including its history
from the original resolution in 1776 to its final
approval in 1782, it is important to note that
general harmony exists among researchers
concerning the superficial interpretation of the
primary symbols.